"Remember our beloved, stupendous example of gritty Paraguay spirit — Salvador Cabañas," Lugo wrote.
And we saw the gritty commercial spirit of Hong Kong emerge in the shopping streets where every sales clerk was full of redoubled cheerful aggressiveness.
If there was cause for complaint, it was that Lionheart's polish and refinement, seductive as they were, seemed slightly at odds with the gritty, robust spirit of these amorous songs.
Playing Smith's fast-talking lawyer, he translates his character's strutting toughness into a series of expressive routines that, more than anything else in the show, capture a gritty '20s spirit.
An emblem of so many things -- French patriotism, gritty urban spirit, show-biz survivalism and, most cliched of all, romantic tragedy -- Piaf became symbolic not simply for channeling the passion of a people but for carefully defining that passion through her repertory and singing style.
This "gritty" feeling also influenced artistic design.
Indeed, although acclaimed as a prophet of 1960s counterculture, Kerouac's own idea of himself and his work was to reclaim the gritty individualism and frontier spirit of the pioneering days of the American past.
A Warren Zevon lyric crops up; so does James McMurtry's red-hot "Talkin' at the Texaco," which immortalizes a gritty, sidelong small-town spirit and might as well be this book's theme song.
PHILADELPHIA — The spirit of Gritty — the wild-eyed orange hockey mascot that's been appropriated by antifascists — was alive and well in Philadelphia's historic district on Saturday, as hundreds of people gathered in response to a planned far-right rally.
I lived in Detroit for nearly two years, and I learned this: It's filled with indomitable spirits of gritty, determined Americans.
